The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-08
BRIGHT BITS.

How it all comes back to me-" dramatically
exclaimed the poet, opening u thick parcel of
rejected verse.PItck.
In the Alps: Gride-If the ladies' will only
stop talking, your honor may hear the roaring
of the waterfall across the valley.-Fligelde
Bldetter
CONSIDERING how many questions a small boy
can ask his mother in quarter of an hour, it is
astonishing how little he seems to know when a
stranger asks him any.-SomerUttte (MdsS)
Journal
SHE was admiring q big Newfoundland at the
dog show and, throwing her arms around his
neck, said: You dear old fellow, love YOU
A youth who heard her remarked: "How wish
/ was dog" The answer came from the same
sweet lips: Never mind, dear; you'll grow. -
The Judge.
In the parlor they were sitting
Sitting by the firelight's glow,
Quickly were the minutes fitting,
Till at last he rose to GO
With his overcoat she puttered,
From her eye escaped tear
Must you go so SoOn?' she muttered.
Wont you stay to breakfast, dear!"
SAND now, Bobby" said his mother, as she
buttoned her gloves. ''be q good little boy while
am out, and do everything you can to amuse
the baby
On her return she discovered that Bobby had
emptied the contents of the moasses jug over
the babys head, and the happy laughter which
came from the infantile lips told her more elo-
quently than mere words could ever hope to tell
how eminently successful BObby's efforts in the
amusement line had been.-NeU York sun.
FIRST OMAHA MANI just tell you this real
estate business is a great thing l make a nice
income every year just buying and selling one
house
Second Omaha Mantle same house every
time?
Yes, the one next to mine. buy it in at a
low price and sell it at big one. BY the way,
can't you drop around tonight? We are going
to have little entertainment"
With pleasure Musical:"
Yes, my boys have been practicing on flutes
and fiddles and comets and things for years.
Omaha WOrtdG
s. S. MERRILL. the dead manager of the Mil
waukee road, had handy trick of knowing per
sonally all the employees of his road. He was
10th to permit man to remain in the service if
be was unacquainted with him. When he came
to make his California trip, a short time before
his death, he called his lieutenants around him
to give them final instructions. At last he
asked them:
rs there anything more to be looked after:'
Hob Atkins saw the opportunity for a joke
on the old mans weakness and accepted it.
well, Mr.. Merrill y he said, there's new
brakeman on the H. and d. division that YOU
ought to know before you leave Paul
Pioneer Press.
IT'S all his fault, your honor!' exclaimed a
wife as she was arraigned in the Police Court
the other day.
who's fault?"
'My husbands"
Flows that?"
''Well sir, he came home half tight lust as I
had finished hard days work and was making
my supper off of cold potatoes. felt mad and
desperate, and he begun to argue about
heaven"
What did he say?"
He said there wasn't no such place, nor
hades. either. and he argued the case so well
that believed him"
"And then whaty"
''Tnen, sir, thinking that if that was the case
l might as well waltz in and have a good time
on earth, picked up stick Of wood and run
the old man all over the neighborhood and made
him roar for mercy"
Sentence suspended, owing to mitigating cir
cumstances.-DetrOnF Free Press.